European Radios

Here are several Philips radios.

Schaub-Lorenz also made some excellent radios. This one is much older than the one I bought when I was in Germany.

One of my all-time favorites was the Grundig Satellit 6000. (Not a misprint - that's the way Germans spell it).

I found this one at a hamfest for $5. All it needed was an RF transistor, antenna (I jury-rigged one) and a volume control (also jury-rigged because they don't sell parts for this model anymore).

The reception is outstanding on the AM and FM bands, and the sound quality beats just about any radio you would care to name. It also has a second bandswitch which rotates a dial scale for each of the short-wave bands. They didn't use the term "world band" in those days, but some people associate "short wave" with noisy old sets.

This Penncrest radio was made in France. All it needed was some new electrolytics, and an antenna. Very good radio.

This doesn't belong in the European or the Japanese page, but I didn't want to start a Rhodesian page.

That's where this radio comes from, stated on the back. Some of the parts are Japanese and some are European.

One more country to hear from - China.

It's well known that a lot of electronic equipment is made in China, but this radio is from mainland China. All of the components are quite different from Taiwan parts. Also, the "R" in the trademark looks suspiciously like the "R" in the RCA trademark.

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